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Amazon and Postmates’ delivery robots heading to more sidewalks in the U.S.

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Geekz Snow
Amazon and Postmates’ delivery robots heading to more sidewalks in the U.S.

As an online shopper, you probably couldn’t give two hoots how that emergency order of toilet paper arrives at your door.

Whether it’s a drone, robot, or human, all you really care about is that it arrives before anything calamitous happens.

Nevertheless, a growing number of companies are working on ways to increase the efficiency of their delivery operations as online shopping continues to grow, with solutions likely to include autonomous technology such as the aforementioned drone and robot.

While drones clearly have the upper hand over wheel-based robots when it comes to speed, strict regulations mean a delivery service using self-piloting aircraft is still a ways off.

In recent days, for example, Amazon and Postmates have each offered updates on their own robots as they attempt to incorporate them into their delivery operations.

It follows trial deliveries in a single neighborhood in Snohomish County, Washington, earlier this year, when the company first announced Scout.

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